[3] Rhetorical Analysis Reflection

    The writing process for my rhetorical analysis worked well in some aspects, but could be improved in others. I began the writing process by choosing a speech. The first topic I chose was a speech by Margaret Sanger. I originally chose her speech "The Children's Era", because I am studying human development and this topic interested me. After some research on the topic, I realized that what she believed in changed my perspective on the article, so I decided to change. I'm glad I did research on the history of the speech and the author because that changed my views on the article. After researching some more, I decided to change the speech to Frederick Douglass' The Hypocrisy of America.
     I started writing the paper days in advance. The thing that really worked for me, was meeting with the teacher. I feel like every teacher expects something different, so having her read through my paper and critiquing it helped me see exactly what she wanted. It even gave me confidence in what I wrote about. In the future, I hope to be able to meet with the teacher again to give me more confidence as well as corrections on my writing.
     I didn't procrastinate to the night before it was due, so that was helpful. It gave me time to think about my paper, and work on it more. Every time I read it, I found something new to fix that I didn't see before, so reading it with a few days to fix it really worked for me. I want to carry that into my writing process for future papers.